New England Distribution

Non-native: introduced
(intentionally or
unintentionally); has become naturalized.

County documented: documented
to exist in the county by
evidence (herbarium specimen, photograph). Also covers
those considered historical (not seen in 20 years).

State documented: never been
documented from the
county, but known from the state. May be present. Or,
may be restricted to a small area or a habitat (alpine,
marsh, etc.), so unlikely found in some
counties.

Note: when native and non-native
populations both exist in a county, only native status
is shown on the map.

North America Distribution

Facts About

Little hawkbit is introduced from Europe to North America. Within New England it has been collected in Massachusetts and Connecticut. A study of the advantages of having two types of seeds in little hawksbit found that seeds with pappus hairs (hairs at the tip of the seed that aid in wind dispersal) displayed few other characteristics beneficial to colonizing sites far from the parental plant, while those lacking pappus hairs were only marginally better equipped to replace the parent at the home site.

Habitat

Anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats), meadows and fields

Characteristics

Habitat

terrestrial

New England state

Connecticut

Massachusetts

Leaf type

leaves are simple (i.e., lobed or unlobed but not separated into leaflets)

Leaf arrangement

basal: the leaves are growing only at the base of the plant

Leaf blade edges

the edge of the leaf blade has lobes, or it has both teeth and lobes

the edge of the leaf blade has no teeth or lobes

the edge of the leaf blade has teeth

Flower type in flower heads

the flower head has ray flowers only, meaning all of the individual flowers of the flower head have a strap-shaped ray, which may or may not have teeth at the very tip of the ray

Ray flower color

other

yellow

Tuft or plume on fruit

at least a part of the plume is made up of fine bristles

there is no plume, or the plume is made up of scales, awns, a crown, or a rim

Distribution

Conservation Status

Native to North America?

Sometimes Confused With

pappus of inner flowers and outer flowers alike, well-developed, with an inner series of plumose bristles and an outer series of slender scales or barbellate bristles, and involucre 10–18 mm tall during anthesis (vs. L. saxatilis, with the pappus of inner flowers with an inner series of plumose bristles and an outer series of scales that may be tipped with a scabrous awn, that of the outer flowers reduced to a short, laciniate crown, and involucre 6–11 mm tall during anthesis).